ELearning Status in Myanmar

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E-Learning Status in Myanmar

• By
• Hnin Wut Yee

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Brief about Myanmar

• Country - Union of Myanmar
• Area - 676,577 Square Kilometer
• North to south distance 2832 Kilometer
• East to west distance 925 Kilometer
• Border with India on the north west - 5858
  Kilometers
• China on the north west
• Laos on the East
• Thailand on the south east
• Total coastal line length - 2832 Kilometers
• Population - Fifty Three million
• States and Divisions - 14
• Population living in rural area - 80

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Present Telecommunication Network
Populations-53 millions Telephone -
445,943 Telephone Density - 0. 84

• Exchange
• Auto Exchange 170
• Manual Exchange - 673
• Transit Exchange - 5
• International Exchange - 1
• Mobile Exchange - 4
• Packet Exchange - 1
• Internet Gateway - 1

Microwave Stations Digital - 179 Analogue
46 Earth Stations International Stations -
1 Domestic Stations - 19 International Submarine
Cable Landing Point -1
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Telecom Infrastructure

• Establishing of Microwave Radio Routes
• Establishing of Domestic Satellite Communication.
• Connection with the SEA-ME-WE 3 Submarine Cable
  System.
• All Exchanges in Yangon and Mandalay are linked
  by fiber
• Linking Yangon and Mandalay by fiber is in
  progress
• New installation of GSM Mobile Phone Net work.
• VSAT and IPStar systems are introduced to cover
  the whole country by using thai com satellite
• Connecting with fiber cable links with the member
  countries of Greater Mekong Sub-region under
  sub-regional Telecommunications Network Projects.

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Internet Infrastructure

• Number of ISPs 2
• (Myanmar Post Telecommunication and Bagan Cyber
  Tech)
• Internet Subscriber 10,000
• User connectivity Dial-up, ADSL, WLL
• Mostly subscribed by govt. and Military officials
• Cyber café 20 (17 in Yangon, 3 in Mandalay)
• Internet User 50,000
• Satellite is main international connectivity
• Country domain name .mm

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Development of ICT Infrastructure

• Establish Myanmar ICT Development Council
• (E-National Task Force (2000))
• Establish of the Myanmar ICT (MICT) Park
• Increase Internet and PC Penetration Rates
• Building Infrastructure for e-Government
  Initiative
• Strengthen the connectivity Development
• Establishing the public Internet Access Center
• ICT exhibition is arranged in every year for 2
  weeks

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Development of ICT Projects

• Smart Card (June 2002)
• 2000 smart cards for officials of Ministry of
  Defense.
• e-Passport (August 2002)
• 5000 passport in its initial phase
• Smart Schools (October 2002)
• Collaborated with the MDC (Malaysia)
• e-Visa (January 2004)
• Visa application and the payment online
• Certification Authority (January 2004)
• To set up the national CA, initially start with
  National Registration Authority (RA).
• e-Procurement (January 2004)
• Tender, direct purchase, catalogue will be
  included.
• TEDI (Trade Electronic Data Interchange) -Ongoing

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Education Structure

• Basic Education
• Primary, Secondary

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Education Structure

• Higher Education
• Economics
• Computer Science
• Education
• Nursing
• Paramedical
• Community Health
• Agriculture
• Forestry
• Dental Medicine
• Engineering
• Medicine

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Education Structure

• First Degree
• Bachelor
• Post Graduate Degree
• Master, Phd

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E-learning Initiatives in Myanmar

• PC penetration to the society
• Establishing multimedia classroom in high schools
  and middle school  all over the country.
• Start ICT education by opening Computer
  Universities in Yangon and Mandalay  and Computer
  colleges in big cities of each states and
  divisions
• Start e-Education Program by Electronic Data
  Broadcasting System for university for Distance
  Learning by  opening over 200 learning centre all
  over Myanmar.
• Establishing of Fiber Optic Networks for the
  whole Yangon and connecting to Mandalay as
  national  backbone.
• 24 government computer colleges were opened in
  states and divisions in addition to Universities
  of ComputerStudies and Mandalay University of
  Computer Studies
• Offers Science and Technologies Diploma,
  Bachelor, Master, Doctorate courses on ICT
  Diploma, Bachelor, Master, Doctorate courses on
  ICT and undergraduate ICT courses to increase IT
  literate population
• Private ICT training schools offers bachelor
  and diploma courses

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ICT Facilities in Higher Education
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E-Learning Development in Myanmar

• E-Learning centers were upgraded to two-way
  communication system or the interactive system
• Myanmar Education Network, utilizing VSAT (very
  small aperture terminal) and iPStar was
  established in Oct 2001
• Ministry of Education use e-learning in teacher
  upgrading program english languagae teaching
  methodology for seccondary school teachers of
  English
• Yangon University of distance education and
  Mandalay University of distance education,
  provide part of their instruction at the 619
  learning centers utilizing e-learning

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E-Learning Development in Myanmar

• Yangon institute of economics offers diploma in
  education management as an e-learning program
• The English Department of Yangon University has
  also launched e-learning in Young Faculty
  Development Programme
• University of Computer studies, Yangon (UCSY)
  offers MSC in computer science as an e-based
  program which utilize e-learning.
• Myanmar computer Federation e-learning Centre
  also has been conducting professional training
  courses and Japan IT Engineers Certification (
  Japan-Myanmar Cross Certification ) is being
  offered.

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E-Learning Development in Myanmar

• more than 1.25 million students in the basic
  education sub-sector,
• nearly 10000 teacher trainees at education
  colleges
• about 700000 students in the higher education
  sub-sector
• are being provided knowledge and skills including
  regular academic pro-grammes through e-learning
  centres throughout Myanmar.

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International Cooperation

• MOU between KEIO University and UCSY
• Offer joint Ph.D programme between KEIO and UCSY
  has been setup
• Active Member of SOI-Asia Japan ASEAN Exchange
  Project (20012003)
• Distribution of live lectures from professors of
  JAPAN
• Myanmar-Japan e-Learning centre (MICT Park)
  established
• MoU between METI e-Task Force
• Provides training courses for Japan Information
  Technology Engineer Examination (JITEE)
• MOU between JAIST and UCSY
• Exchange knowledge with other participants from
  ASEAN countries
• Learning many archive lectures at any time
• Interactive disucssion between professors and
  participants in Mgyanmar

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Constraints on the Use of E-Learning in Myanmar

• Lack of Infrastructure
• 9th out of 10 ASEAN countries in terms of
  e-infrastructure, e-society,e
• commerce and e-government
• classified as emerging readiness country
• characterised by the need to build basic ICT
  infrastructure
• Lack of financial resources for ICT education
• one of the least developed countries in the world
• GDP is roughly US 1,027.
• Limited access to and awareness of ICT
• One of the countries most shut off from the
  Internet
• Monitoring e-mail traffic and website content.
• Allegedly controls the establishment of e-mail
  accounts and websites.

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Items to be Localized in E-learning

• E-learning contents
• E-learning standards
• E-learning technology
• E-learning policy
• Certification method for e-learning professionals

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Any Questions?
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Thank You